Miccosukee Man Gets Life in Sons’ Murders
A Miccosukee Indian whose arrest on murder charges set off a dispute over tribal sovereignty was sentenced to life in prison for drowning his two sons by driving into a canal after a dispute with the boys’ mother.
Kirk Douglas Billie, 36, was convicted this month of second-degree murder in the 1997 deaths of Kurt, 5, and Keith, 3.
The tribe and prosecutors fought for years over jurisdiction in the case, with the Miccosukees trying to block the state from bringing him to trial. The tribe denounced the murder charges as “white man’s justice.”
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